Shattered Glass (2003)

Shattered Glass is a 2003 American drama film written and directed by Billy Ray. The screenplay is based on a September 1998 Vanity Fair article by H. G. Bissinger. In it he chronicled the rapid rise of Stephen Glass' journalistic career at The New Republic during the mid-1990s and his steep fall when his widespread journalistic fraud was exposed.

The film stars Hayden Christensen, Peter Sarsgaard, Chloë Sevigny, Hank Azaria, and Steve Zahn.

Synopsis

Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen) is a reporter at The New Republic, where he has made a name for himself for writing colorful stories. His editor, Michael Kelly (Hank Azaria), is revered by the magazine's young staff. When David Keene (at the time Chairman of the American Conservative Union) questions Glass' description of minibars and the drunken antics of Young Republicans at a convention, Kelly backs his reporter when Glass admits to one mistake but says the rest is true.

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